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In the soundtrack of my life, I’ve had songs from Hamilton occur with increasing frequency. One particular piece, Wait For It, resonates most clearly where I feel I am in my trading life. Specifically:

Death doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners
And the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes

And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall
And we break
And we make our mistakes

And if there’s a reason I’m still alive
When everyone who loves me has died
I’m willing to wait for it

As a child of the 80s, I have a great fondness for the music of that era (most particularly around 1982-1987). There was one song, however, I detested, and it was the Mick Jagger/David Bowie “Dancing in the Street”. However, a YouTuber, God bless him, made it actually enjoyable by removing the music. Check out the banality; it’s hilarious…….